Tourniquet Test

Preferred Label : Tourniquet Test;

NCIt synonyms : Hess Test; Rumpel-Leede Test;

NCIt related terms : Hess; Rumpel-Leede;

Alternative definition : CDISC: A method of assessing capillary fragility that is used in the diagnosis of hemorrhagic fevers. After taking a blood pressure measurement, the cuff is inflated to a point midway between the assessed systolic and diastolic pressures and maintained for five minutes; the cuff is then released and, after two minutes, the number of petechiae below the antecubital fossa are counted.;

Details

Origin ID

C186195;

UMLS CUI

C1508749;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Capillary fragility [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- Capillary fragility test (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Hess test [MedDRA LLT]
- Tourniquet test [MedDRA LLT]
Semantic type(s)
- Diagnostic Procedure [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Capillary fragility test [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- Capillary fragility test (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Hess test [MedDRA LLT]
- Tourniquet test [MedDRA LLT]
- capillary fragility [MeSH Descriptor]
- capillary fragility [MeSH concept]
- capillary fragility test [SNOMED Notion]
concept_is_in_subset
- CDISC SDTM Method Terminology [NCIt concept]
- CDISC SDTM Terminology [NCIt concept]
- Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium Terminology [NCIt concept]

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